Below is the text of Mr Major's written Parliamentary Answer on Severe Weather Payments on 3rd February 1987.

Mr. Meadowcroft Asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish in the Official Report a list of the percentages of severe weather payment claims dealt with by each benefit office by 24 January.

Mr. Major Information is not available in the form requested. Statistics on the number of exceptionally cold weather payments made and those refused are being maintained and will be published in due course.